Thursday, March 25, 2010

Smith & Wesson makes a fragrance.

I drove to Metairie today during my lunch break to buy a sportcoat, dress shirt and tie. I went the “big & tall” route to make sure I found something that fits.

Anyway, at the cash register, I noticed some colognes on display. And one of them – swear to God – was Smith & Wesson eau de toilette.

Smith & Wesson. Eau de toilette.

Smith & Wesson has been making firearms since 1852. Revolvers, shotguns, pistols, rifles. The world-famous .357 Magnum.

I don’t know how fucking long they’ve been selling men’s cologne. Or why. But I thought it was worth noting.

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16 comments:

  1. MachelleMarch 25, 2010 at 3:25 PM

    So when we say that his cologne "knocked me up against the wall" it will work on more than one level...

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  2. Alan StammMarch 25, 2010 at 3:26 PM

    This well-targeted product seems ready-made for Sarah Palin's "don't retreat, reload" yahoos. Their womenfolk can splash on some, too.

    I wish it were even a little bit funny, of course.

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  3. CNuMarch 25, 2010 at 4:28 PM

    so...., let's hear about what it smelled like? there's just no way in hell I can feature you seeing that bottle/brand and not taking a whiff.

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  4. estivMarch 25, 2010 at 4:49 PM

    so...., let's hear about what it smelled like?

    It smelled like...victory.

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  5. Undercover Black ManMarch 25, 2010 at 5:26 PM

    ^ estiv, you're quick on the draw. I had the punch line chambered.

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  6. Undercover Black ManMarch 25, 2010 at 5:31 PM

    But no, CNu... I had no impulse to check it out.

    But that does remind me of a vague childhood sense memory. My dad, who grew up in the country, had guns. Rifles mostly. And I remember the sweet chemical smell of a soft cloth associated with those long guns.

    I think that cloth was used to clean the barrels. And that's one of those smells I associate with Daddy... like sneaking sniffs of the Old Spice on his chest of drawers.

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  7. uglyblackjohnMarch 25, 2010 at 5:40 PM

    Welcome to the South.
    Sarah Palin was just in town and her crowd smells of (that hair oil old white guys use) and cigarettes.

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  8. Undercover Black ManMarch 25, 2010 at 5:43 PM

    (that hair oil old white guys use)

    Vitalis?

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  9. CNuMarch 25, 2010 at 6:16 PM

    "sneaking sniffs"...,

    sheeeeiiiittttt......,

    dood, you couldn't keep me out of all-a-dat stuff. vitalis hair "tonic" with "V7" is mostly alcohol, no oil. i remember what that smells like. I was a big fan of cheap mens fragrances when I was a kid.

    I'm thinking brylcreem and tobacco may be what you smell on those old heads uncle John.

    Hi Karate, English Leather, and sundry Avon fragrances with collectible bottles rocked the highboy at my house, but daddy put straight up vaseline on his hair and then under a stocking cap so that it stayed "trained" and properly wavy - then a little of that stanky Jeris barber tonic on his neck or some Aftashave on his cheeks.

    Now my curiosity is piqued and I won't rest easy until I find out what Smith and Wesson smells like.

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  10. CNuMarch 25, 2010 at 6:45 PM

    You had to have squandered more than a little time here by now David. They have the single most exquisite utility fragrance known to man kind.

    LIMES DES BURAS—The invigorating heartiness of the pungent lime is captured in this scintillatingly positive fragrance.

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  11. uglyblackjohnMarch 25, 2010 at 8:21 PM

    Actually, I was thinking Vitalis but it was really Brylcream.

    @ SeeNew - They sell the stuff at the local 24hr. Walgreens but I doubt they'll let you take a sample whiff.

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  12. BethMarch 25, 2010 at 10:13 PM

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  13. BethMarch 25, 2010 at 10:14 PM

    Big and Tall, in Metairie?

    Did you find your way to the store with the big, inflated, striped phallus on the roof? That makes the gun-scented cologne all the funnier.

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  14. Daniel Hoffmann-GillMarch 26, 2010 at 6:03 AM

    What next, Blackwater eau de toillette?

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  15. AnonymousApril 1, 2010 at 1:03 PM

    Has anyone figure out the meaning of the sybolism on the Smith and Wesson bottle? i really would like to know.

    Cool PaPa

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  16. estivApril 1, 2010 at 6:27 PM

    Has anyone figure out the meaning of the symbolism on the Smith and Wesson bottle?

    I make out an S and a W, with an extra curlicue or two.

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